Help: (former) Sonic Team / Yuji Naka email adress

It means he's short.

If I'm not mistaken, Yakumo and I are the same age.

 

indeed, sadly.... :smt009

 

Assuming you get an answer then it may only be part of the answer you're looking for......he might be able to say something about the number he signed (I wouldn't have that good a memory myself), but there were Sonic DCs that were not signed by him.

The PAL Sonic DCs were almost certainly made in Europe/France as they were PAL DCs(atleast mine is), so it's not clear if the Sonic team themselves would have known of the numbers (unlikely presumebly since they were not made in Japan labs).

I'll dig out the email I have from a senior Sega exec quoting the numbers (from his memory). I return from Oz to UK today, so a few days before I can post again.

 

All units i ever saw were signed.

I only saw one picture of an unsigned Sonic LE console, and this picture looks like a shot for PR-purposes. I bet they made this one picture before it was signed - so i suppose that alle Sonic LE consoles are signed by Yuji Naka.

 

Found the emails.....here's the jist of them, they describe Sega Of France and UK Marketing separately:

In Sega of France 10 Sonic DCs were delivered, 4 were given to staff. The Sonic team DID know how many Sonic DCs were produced as they know the serial nums of them.

(the next bit is paraphrased from the guy responsible for making the Sonic DCs in UK Marketing)
The guy who was responsible in the UK for creating the Sonic DCs has one himself, and there were more than 10 signed. UK Marketing produced 50 of them in total. The US had a different version which were also signed by Mr Naka.


That's it - the above is 100% correct as it comes from the guy responsible for creating the Sonic DCs(the second paragraph that is).

 

I was told of a US Sonic Edition console which was designed like the Joypad - white console with Sonic-Blue borders. Never saw one of these before.

So a total of 60 PAL Sonic 10th. anniversary Dreamcasts were produced ? That's a lower production run than the japanese "custom" Dreamcast, making it the rarest official LE Dreamcast console.
GREAT !

 

>>I was told of a US Sonic Edition console which was designed like the
>> Joypad - white console with Sonic-Blue borders. Never saw one of
>>these before.
Ahh...that's alot more than I know....I've never heard them talked of outside of the email I have....cool to have an idea of what they look like.

>>So a total of 60 PAL Sonic 10th. anniversary Dreamcasts were produced ?
50......(not 60)

>> That's a lower production run than the japanese "custom" Dreamcast, >>making it the rarest official LE Dreamcast console.
I guess the Custom is the rarest *commercially* available LE DC.

 

The "custom" Dreamcast was sold by Sega's D-Direct in a competition like event - but i agree that it was commercially, since you had to pay for the Dreamcast when you'd been lucky enough to get one.

 

Erm whats the custom dreamcast?

 

Named after the Custom RX-78 Gundam... there were 78 (or 79 if they really did start the production number at 0).

I'd still rather have any of the 3 or 4 Mazora DC's that were, like the Sonic DC, not sold, but given out. No production numbers on them, but I couldn't imagine there being 50 of each of them.